Visual orienting and alerting in rhesus monkeys: Comparison with humans

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-112

  Witte, E A ^a,b   Villareal, M ^a   Marrocco, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

alerting; covert orienting; reaction time; task pacing; visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0030477107     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)81113-8     Document Type: Article

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